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Artist Lucy Parker, chairman of Fiveways trail,
runs drop-in life drawing sessions and occasional day courses
at Sussex County Arts club. Her Artist's Open House at 47
Cleveland Road is a substantial Victorian terrace, with some
impressive ceiling mouldings and elegantly green and golden
hand painted walls.
Lucy, a painter who has also worked in sculpture and lithography,
is showing her most current work; Cape Cod landscapes, mysterious
Venetian scenes and glowing shadowy watercolour nudes, and
her collection of richly iridescent jewellery in Venetian
glass. The garage has been transformed for the festival into
a portrait gallery, which can be seen from the pavement.
There's also a documentary about Lucy featuring her thoughts
and impressions on the process of portraiture.
Lucy said that the opening celebration had been a fabulous
party, and that she felt that her work was done purely for
the love of it.
Her original training as a scientist together with her later
art training has given her a fascination for natural forms,
particularly the human body and face, a passion for life drawing
and the quality of dappled light.
See www.lbparker.com
for more information about Lucy and her work.
Also showing: Reclaimed wood furniture and mirrors from Irrational
Passion, Glynis Johnson's characterful ceramic sculptured
dogs, Chris Lewes' ceramics and Melanie Tomlinson's intricate
butterfly brooches and tin automata models including a memorable
green chameleon. Jeremy Mclachlan, the potter from Clays Hill,
is showing a series of serene stoneware birds in demure, muted
shades, including a little flock of charming miniature birds
modelled on the tip of the artist's thumb.
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